Infrastructure

Facilities:

• Buldinig
• Wifi Campus
• Internet
• Canteen & Stores
• Girls’ waiting room
• Sports & games

 

• Communication & Transport
• Power & Water Supply
• Central Library
• Laboratories
• DELL Lab
• Auditorium
Hostel Building

The College has Hostel facility for boys as well as girls. The hostel is provided with the finest of amenities and facilities so that the inmates are ensured a comfortable stay and can pursue their studies in a congenial atmosphere. Other facilities at the hostel include guest rooms, recreation quarters and internet facility.

Power & Water Supply

The electrical supply by AP Transco provides ample power for the campus needs. college has bore wells on campus that provide sufficient water to the college. Each floor is provided with a water cooler.

Classrooms

The classrooms are commodious enough to accommodate 150 students each. They occupy the upper storeys of the Main as well as the Annexe buildings of the college, and are therefore at a safe distance from the commotion of the road outside.The classrooms are commodious enough to accommodate 100 students each. They occupy the upper storeys of the Main as well as the Annexe buildings, and are therefore at a safe distance from the commotion of the road outside.

Shri R. K. Parikh Arts and Science College has an efficient IT infrastructure with ICT enabled classrooms, central hall, labs, library, administrative block. The entire campus is connected through Local Area Network.

Institute has adequate number of desktops and laptops available for staff and students. The laptops are available for use by teachers in the classrooms. Computers and printers are available in the all the departments and administrative block. Multimedia Projectors are provided in the classrooms and central hall. This comprehensive infrastructure is complemented by computer networking devices, scanners. The College has IT consultant available on call for maintenance and support of the ICT infrastructure.

The College has a high configuration server to allow fast transmission of data to the various computers. Office automation packages for desktops and laptops and antivirus are purchased by the college and updated regularly. The college provides access to MS Teams and Google Suite for education for academic purposes. The desktop and mobile version of ERP software from Genius EduSoft is available for admin, staff and students.

Chemistry lab

Chemistry Department is offering Chemistry as a principal subject at graduate level. Department is having Organic / Inorganic labs,  Physical lab and a research lab. Capacity of lab is 30 students per batch.  Journey of Chemistry department…

Physics lab

Department of Physics is established in 1946 offering bachelor’s degree. There are three teaching faculties and one technical staff. The department has three fully equipped laboratories having sophisticated instrumroents like Geiger Muller Counter, Michelson’s interferometer, Hall effect, C.R.O.s, AFOs, digital power supplies and meters. There is also an “Electronic Project Laboratory”. The department successfully conducted Refrigeration course under Career Oriented Program of UGC. Journey of Physics department….

S.K. Microbiology Department (Established in 1996)

During 1990s Microbiology was most popular and fascinating subject amongst the students going abroad. Keeping in mind the need of time and demand, Petlad Education Trust has decided to start this subject in Shri R.K. Parikh Arts & Science College, Petlad.

Restless efforts were made by Late Shri Amratlal Sheth Saheb, Shri G. M. Shah Saheb, Prin. Dr. V.A. Pandya Sir and Prof. P.J.Bhavsar to start Microbiology subject in this college.

Biology Lab

Department of  Biology was established in 1946. Department is offering biology subject up to four semester  at undergraduate level. Expensive equipment have been installed in the laboratories for the benefit of the students. Great care is  taken in handling equipment. Department is having asset of  museum cum office, laboratory and botanical garden.

The college library of 165 sq.mts. was established in 1945-46 with humble donation by Bhimaklal Dixit in memory of Amrbal & Nandlal Dixit. The college library is a rich and well endowed one with a total 35203 books. The library provides individual computer terminal with internet INFLIBNET access to all students and staff. Under this program they are able to access online more than 6 lakhs e-books and 6000 + e-journals.

It is fully computerized with INFLIBNET SOUL 2.0 software. All the books are circulated with bar code system. The library hall with a seating capacity of 50 students. Five Computers with internet connections have been installed in the reading room where students can also read journals, periodicals and magazines. There are many books for General Knowledge; Competitive exams such as IPS, GPSC, UPSC, BANKING, Defense, Railways, and PSI. Swami Sachchidanand special collection books of spiritual and religious literature is available. The Library conducts orientation program for the newly enrolled students. The students are informed about library services such as OPAC, e-resources and all other library resources.

Library User Data (Per Day):
Number of Students       : 50 to 75
Number of Staff                : 10 to 15
Number of Visitors          : 05-to 10

Total Books in Library:   35203
No. of Titles/Books          :               26410
No. of Textbooks             :               08793
No. of Reference books :               02077
No. of Journals                  :               0023
No. of Magazines             :               0026
No. of News Papers        :               0006

E-Information resources:
CDS/DVDS                               : 00377
Audio-Visual Cassette       : 00207
Competitive Exam.Books: 1015

Services / Facilities in the Library:

  • Reference Service
  • Inter Library Lone service
  • OPAC Facilities
  • G.C. (INFLIBNET,E-Books & E-journals)
  • Open Sources
  • Newspapers Clippings
  • University Question Papers
  • Internet

Library Timings:
Monday to Saturday: 10.45 to 5.30 p.m.

Library Area: (in Sq.Mtrs.):
165 Sq.Mtrs.

Library Software:
We are using UGC recognized “SOUL “Library software.

Classification System Using in the Library:
We are using 21st edition of Dew Decimal Classification scheme.

Library Staff:
Mr. S.M.Parekh (Librarian)
Mr.V.G.Vaghela (Peon).

To satisfy the needs of modern age, the Trust Started Training in computer science in 1986 with the generous donation from the Petlad Nagarik Sahakari Bank. Having developed the training on the same lines, the Trust is running a well- equipped computer center now. Computer courses like D.C.A., D.T.P., Tally Accounting, were taught at this center.

At present the Department has 22 computers 2 Laptops with latest configuration. The department is well equipped with Multimedia projector, colour laser printer, black and white laser printer, scanner, webcams and broadband connection. All computers are connected in Lan with internet access.

Computer science department offers free internet access to all students of college.

The computer center has modern facilities and offers Computer as Subject Elective in the Arts Stream. I.e. two paper in each Semester up to 4th semester. Department is also offering computer in foundation course i.e. semester 3ed and 4th semester in Arts stream.
Computer science department offers computer as a elective subject in B.Sc. 1st semester to all students.
Department is also running free short term courses for college students to developed computer literacy and skill.

National Cadet Corps aims at developing character and comradeship, as well as keenness for service and capacity for leadership in the youth. It provides military training to the youth and builds a ready reserve, which the Armed Forces could easily make use of in times of national emergency. There are a number of incentives that motivates students to become cadets. Besides being an additional merit while seeking to join the forces or taking up other jobs, NCC also motivates cadets to perform to their best by offering scholarships, cash awards, prizes, medals, trophies etc. Apart from service and institutional training, the cadets also participate in other activities like Community Development, Youth Exchange Programme, Adventure Sports Training. Taking part in NCC Day, Republic day Camp etc. not only gives the students an opprtunity to visit different cities/states of India but also interact with cadets from different parts of the country. NCC activities of the college are guided by Associate NCC Officer.

The College encourages the students to actively take part in the NSS activities so as to serve the society. A ten day annual camp is held in the “NSS” adopted village every year. The students are encouraged to participate in this camp and help the villagers.